"A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time."

-- Annie Dillard

#Time Quotes #Hands Quotes #Schedules Quotes

“Start looking around you... and all you see are people the world would be better off without.”
“When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.”
“My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and I want others to understand it and to be able to restate it.”

Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.
“Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.”
“In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. To wander is the Romantic condition; one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair.”

Source : Alfred Brendel (2015). “Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures”, p.167, Biteback Publishing
“I guess it's the age group of students; You are questioning life. Then there are those who actually see their problems reflected in it.”
“It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.”
“For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.”

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